HP Software Division - IT Management Products

IT Management Products

The largest category of software sold by the HP Software Division is HP IT Management Software. IT management software is software that supports business objectives rather than IT goals. Other companies who develop and sell IT management software include IBM, BMC Software, Borland, CA, and Compuware.

HP aligns its IT management software products into product centers. The centers and the products in each are:

HP Application Lifecycle Management (HP ALM) is a software product used by IT departments for managing and automating application modernization activities. The latest version of the software, HP ALM 11.50, was released in Jun. 2012. HP ALM is a combination of a common platform, several applications and a dashboard designed to support software developers as they move applications from design through to delivery to operations. HP ALM 11 includes products from HP Quality Center and HP Performance Center. HP ALM 11 provides requirements management, test planning and functional testing, performance testing (when merged with HP Performance Center), developer management (through integration with widely used developer environments such as Collabnet TeamForge and Microsoft Visual Studio) and defect management. These software lifecycle activities are connected together from a workflow perspective with a common management console, layer of project tracking and planning and built on a common software foundation containing a consistent repository and open integration architecture with a supported SDK.

HP Business Service Automation is a set of technology software products used for unifying and standardizing the work of Information Technology (IT). HP Business Service Automation creates a common, enterprise-wide view of each business service; enables the automation of change and compliance across the devices that make up a business service; connects IT processes and coordinates teams via common workflows; and integrates with monitoring and ticketing tools to form an integrated business service management package.

HP Application Security Center consists of products that were formerly part of the SPI Dynamics software company portfolio. The Application Security Center catalog includes DevInspect, Assessment Platform, QAInspect and WebInspect.

HP Business Availability Center includes several application management products: HP Business Service Management Software, Business Process Monitor, Business Process Insight, Discovery and Dependency Mapping, End User Management Problem Isolation, HP SiteScope, System Availability Management, TransactionVision and HP Universal CMDB software, a configuration management database for ITIL-based initiatives.

HP Data Center Automation Center consists of Business Service Automation Essentials, Network Automation, Server Automation, Service Automation Reporter, Service Automation Visualizer, Storage Essentials, Operations Orchestration and Release Control software.

HP Network Management Center consists of the following products previously branded as HP OpenView: Network Node Manager, Performance Insight, TeMIP, Report Pack for Cisco Wireless LAN Pack, and Report Pack for Radius Call Detail v 1.3.

HP Operations Center catalog includes a number of products from its 2007 acquisition of Opsware: Discovery and Dependency Mapping, GlancePlus Pak,Operations Dashboard, Operations Manager Dependency Mapping Automation, Operations Manager i 8.0, Operations Smart Plug-ins, Performance Manager, Reporter, HP SiteScope, and HP Universal CMDB.

HP Performance Center consists of four products gained from HP's 2006 purchase of Mercury Interactive: Center Management for Performance Center, HP Diagnostics, HP LoadRunner Monitors, and HP LoadRunner.

HP Project and Portfolio Management Center(PPM) consists of nine products, many from HP's Mercury acquisition. The HP PPM catalog includes HP Deployment Management module, Discovery and Dependency Mapping software, PPM Demand Management module, PPM Financial Management module, PPM Portfolio Management module, PPM Program Management module, PPM Project Management module, PPM Resource Management module, and PPM Time Management module.

HP Quality Center includes HP Business Process Testing, Center Management for Quality Center software, Change Impact Testing for SAP Applications, HP Functional Testing software, HP QuickTest Professional, Requirements Management module, Service Test Management module for SOA, Service Test and HP WinRunner software.

HP SOA Service-oriented architecture Center includes SOA Governance Interoperability Framework, SOA Policy Enforcer, SOA Registry Foundation, SOA Systinet and HP Universal CMDB software. The Systinet product is a result of HP's purchase of Mercury Interactive.

HP Service Management Center includes Asset Manager, HP Connect-It software, DecisionCenter, HP Client Automation Software and Service Manager software. In October of 2012 HP announced that they would provide competitive offerings in the same tool space in a SaaS deployment model branded under the Service Anywhere name.

HP Business Service Management 9.0, announced by HP Software Division in June 2010, is composed of HP Business Availability Center 9.0 (BAC), HP Operations Manager i 9.0 (OMi) and HP Network Management Center (NMC) 9.0 software products. HP BSM 9.0 works as a common single platform for managing complex applications, including those supported by both private and public cloud computing, outsourced IT, software-as-a-service (Saas) and traditional IT service delivery.

HP Software cloud computing portfolio consists of a number of software, services and third-party integrations designed to help IT departments adopt and manage cloud computing implementations, both public and private, as well managing traditional IT delivery. HP Software Division markets its cloud initiatives using a lifecycle approach. For planning and design of a cloud strategy and architecture, HP offers the HP Cloud Discovery Workshop, HP Cloud Roadmap Service, HP Cloud Design Service and HP Service Management Consulting Services. HP sells two software packages for automating and managing cloud infrastructure and applications, HP Cloud Service Automation Software and HP Business Technology Optimization Services for Cloud Infrastructure. Two services, HP Cloud Assure and HP Elastic Test, are designed for securing cloud-based services. HP LoadRunner in the Cloud is another cloud offering from HP Software Division. In May 2010, HP announced that an on-demand version of the application performance testing software would be available via Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud.